What was the last thing you did for play or fun?
I just went over my mind and then I sighed because damn Val, you don’t play? You don’t have any fun?
Month: December 2024
Not even close!
“Things didn’t entirely turn out to be what I wanted them to, they turned out to be entirely how they should have been.”
Not even close.I had a whole different view of what my life would have been today.
Even though things didn’t entirely turn out to be what I wanted them to, they turned out to be entirely how they should have been.
I learnt to be present as I do the best I can.
So yeah, I couldn’t be more grateful.
Self – regulation
What positive events have taken place in your life over the past year?
Learning how to regulate my emotions is the best thing I’ve achieved so far.
I couldn’t be more grateful.
Oooh yeah!
Do you ever see wild animals?
I question my sanity most times because why did I just laugh so hard at this question!!
Have you ever laughed so hard at something then someone next to you asked “sa unacheka” – to mean what are you laughing at. And it’s usually not a polite question at all.
But sure, I see wild animals. I see a bunch of them. I experience them. I feel them.
Find joy in the journey.
I bumped into this lovely wall paper from Pinterest of course.
At that time I was in the trenches. I was in the midst of a huge personal crisis.
Nothing seemed to make any sense. I felt useless.
My whole existence hurt. I would wake up, get out of bed and sit like a guest who just arrived on earth. Not knowing where to start and how to even go about my way around life.
I logged out of all my socials, my social batteries had died. Totally. In case my phone rung, I would stare at it in horror. I was beaten. Ten times harder than I could usually handle.
And then one day, I figured I needed to make sense out of everything, and I couldn’t just find the right words to describe the whole process. But it was simply “find joy in the journey”.
As awful as everything felt at that time, there was definitely one or two things I could be grateful for. That’s how I started getting my bearing back.
I love the quote, I am a sucker for quotes.
This wall paper has honestly carried me through the toughest of times and the other day while I was changing it, I genuinely felt so ungrateful. But again the holidays are here and I just want to be fully present and that means even with my wall paper. I mean it is still part of finding joy in the journey right?
I think about Sagalla every so often.
“Things that fascinate me might come off as very mundane. But again, that’s just me okay.”
I started writing, then I was told that there was a Christmas choral performance and I had to run for that. I loooove holidays. I mostly thrive in December.
Okay so here goes…….
I’d be damned if I said no!
I have a few but I’ll fill you in on about one. I am a country girl. Things that fascinate me might come off as very mundane. But again, that’s just me okay.
So back in 2022 January, that was the first actual time I was going to be entirely far from home. It was daunting emotionally, but let’s not talk about that now. I have a history of telling a thousand different stories in one story haha!
Okay so back in 2022 I was to move to a place called Voi, Taita Taveta – Kenya.
I knew one girl from there whom I’d gotten acquainted with. And because technically I didn’t have any furniture or a house to begin with. I was to spend my first few days at her home, where she lived with her grandma. Cute innit? Yes. 😅.
So the village was called Sagalla. A whole definition of the place I dreamt of settling. It was cute. So cute.
It was hilly, and full of greenery.
The next morning, I woke up to pure blissfulness. The hills were misty. The freshest air I’ve ever woken up to. The homestead was a buzz of calming activities, I’m talking about milking the cows, feeding the chicken and sweeping the yard.
For a minute I was like, can I just send my letter of resignation before reporting, because I just had a moment of realization that probably that life right there was everything I’d ever wanted, to feel complete.
I think about Sagalla every so often. So clearly that makes it a favorite place. Okay cue “favourite girl by Darkoo” I guess this should work for now
I gotta run back to the Christmas chorals.
No longer racing with the sunrise.
I am so sure I wrote something similar to what I am about to write, last year around a time like this.
I have insane fatigue, and insane is just an understatement in this case.
Immediately it gets to November my body just knows.
I have been waking up at 5:00 a.m., at the latest, 6:30 a.m. I learned to pay attention to my body, and in the last few months, I’ve learned that I’m entirely functional whenever I wake up before the sun comes out.
Lately, I can’t race with the sunrise anymore. And neither can I just disrespect my body like that.
I know it is 90% a mindset thing, but I’m just so exhausted. I can literally feel how my brain functions of late. It’s on a whole slow motion.
And I promise I am nowhere close to being stressed, I am in my best place mentally. Calmer than I have ever been.
I just know that I don’t want to be rushed anymore. I am sleeping in more often and I am doing everything at my own pace.
That’s probably my style of bidding the year goodbye.
And I genuinely understand my body, it has carried me through so much the entire year and I couldn’t be more grateful. The best thing I can do right now is respect it and enjoy the slowness.
(PS: I wrote this on the 10th of November but was just too exhausted to update it)
^^Happy Holidays. Cheers.
Shadow to my light. 